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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Almost did it again, I keep forgetting about posting my card on Wednesday for the LNS challenge. The two week challenge for this time is to use your dies or framelits. I must say I do that on most of my cards so it was a really easy one! I decided to go with an nontraditional Valentine! Those of you who visit my blog often know I love to be different and Valentines is no exception. I love these colors on this card, really fun to use the Oh, Happy Day for a Valentine card too--the unexpected!

I hope you enjoy this card as much as I do--we did this at my class tonight. Along with a few other fun ones I will be posting in the next few days.

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It is so crazy cold outside! I can not even stand to let my dogs out--my nose hairs freeze in the couple seconds I have the door open--and those silly animals don't want to come back in when I call them--they act like it is just another day in paradise?! The good news is that I have had lots of time today to create since much of what I had planned was canceled! So now I have cards to post for the rest of the week--and then some, lol. I am going to start out with a card I made for the Create with Connie and Mary challenge--I have not played along with them in quite some time. I really liked the sketch so I thought this is the day!

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Don't forget now that SAB is started you are going to want go get my newest tutorial for the See Ya Later stamp set that you can earn for free!

Stampin Up's Big
Sale-A-Bration Event is finally here. So of course I had to make a tutorial with one of
the sets you can get for FREE with a $50 purchase. It is such a cute
set and I matched it up with the darling papers from the new Occasions
Catalog--Retro Fresh Designer Series--awesome colors. So here is the
newest tutorial--remember all of my tutorials have step by step
directions for all of the cards with cut sizes and tips. Each card has
it's own page with full pictures and directions. You are gonna love
these cards--super cute!

Pretty fun huh: I am excited to see what you do with this sketch. Give it a try. When you are done be sure to come on back and leave a direct link below.
Here are a few rules of
play....

You have a full week to play along!

Create a new card using the sketch as your inspiration.

Use any products you choose.

Add your card to your blog or other on-line spot and link back to this challenge.

Come back here and add a direct link to your sample for the challenge
and NOT you home page of your blog--people will not look for your
challenge card--trust me.

And this one is not really a rule but a request--get rid of that word
verification! It makes it hard for us to comment on your samples. It
is easier for you to delete the spam then for us to jump through tons
of hoops to comment. If your put your comments on moderation you do not
have to worry about spam--you will have the option to delete it
BEFORE it ever goes on your blog so you will ALWAYS be safe!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

My son does not do Valentines anymore, but the last few years that he
did he did not want anything that was mushy or lovey dovey. With that
in mind I decided to create a quick and easy Valentine that can just be
printed, cut and assembled. I hope you like it. You can download the
file with four to a page below.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Today's challenge is of course the sketch challenge but also with an added twist of Well Worn--I was excited to see that as the twist as I just got the new single stamp Look Up To Father and wanted to use it--worked out perfect! Here is my card...

I had so much fun with this--I love distressing cards but don't do it that often. The base is Baked Brown Sugar, then I used a piece of the Wood grain Natural Composition Specialty paper ans added some Baked Brown Sugar ink with a sponge. I added the ink to the ribbon too and frayed the ends before attaching with brads (been a long time since I used those. The image is stamped in Baked Brown Sugar on Very Vanilla and cut out with the ovals framelits. Again I sponged ink on the endges. All the the edges were distressed with out distressing tool. The sentiment and brads candy dots along the side finished it off! Hope you enjoy. Here is the sketch to play along with us

Monday, January 20, 2014

Happy Martin Luther King Day--which around here means--Happy No School! My son is so happy to have another day off--seems that they have not had a full week of school in at least a month, between conference days, half days, snow days, holidays--they are off every time I turn around! Good think I love to have him home with me. Well if you are home maybe you will have more time to play today--so let's get right to the sketch so you can! Here is this week's sketch...

Here is my sample...

I think I went a little pattern crazy but I actually like it. Once your eyes can settle on one thing, lol! I am so loving the colors in this DP. Obviously since I did my last tutorial using the new SAB set See Ya Later and all my last few cards with it, I may have to order more!

A bit of a different sketch but it lends itself to lots of great cards, so give it a try. When you are done be sure to come on back and leave a direct link below.
Here are a few rules of
play....

You have a full week to play along!

Create a new card using the sketch as your inspiration.

Use any products you choose.

Add your card to your blog or other on-line spot and link back to this challenge.

Come back here and add a direct link to your sample for the challenge
and NOT you home page of your blog--people will not look for your
challenge card--trust me.

And this one is not really a rule but a request--get rid of that word
verification! It makes it hard for us to comment on your samples. It
is easier for you to delete the spam then for us to jump through tons
of hoops to comment. If your put your comments on moderation you do not
have to worry about spam--you will have the option to delete it
BEFORE it ever goes on your blog so you will ALWAYS be safe!

Amazing sample this week everyone! It was a fun sketch. I really enjoyed seeing all the different designs. I had a bit of a hard time picking my favorites but after going back a forth a few times I decided to stick with these three....

Saturday, January 18, 2014

So it is not really my style but I thought I would sit down and make them right now--and see how I could change it up a bit. But still use what was in the kit. I have to say I have lots of left over items to use on other projects! Here are my cards....

And here is how Stampin Up did them...

Here are the cards individually....

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

A new year and lots of new things--that is what we are celebrating on LNS
this week! Our challenge for the next two weeks is to create a project
that celebrates something new--new relationship, new home, new
baby--you get it. Here is my sample for today--it uses the brand new
set--Baby We've Grown.

I
also used the new paper pack called High Tide. Cute papers--although
some of the patterns I would never use--the opposite sides of those
prints are darling! The colors are Summer Starfruit, Pacific Point,
Soft Sky and Whisper White. I tied a really thin piece of Pacific Point
paper on the button. Didn't have any ribbon that matched.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Can you believe we are just week's away from Stampin Up's Big Sale-A-Bration Event. So of course I had to make a tutorial with one of the sets you can get for FREE with a $50 purchase. It is such a cute set and I matched it up with the darling papers from the new Occasions Catalog--Retro Fresh Designer Series--awesome colors. So here is the newest tutorial--remember all of my tutorials have step by step directions for all of the cards with cut sizes and tips. Each card has it's own page with full pictures and directions. You are gonna love these cards--super cute!

Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday again, already! Well at least we get to work on a new sketch for the week! That is always a day brightener in my world! Here is this week's sketch....

I chose to make a love card--but with nontraditional colors. I am so in love with the colors on the Retro Fresh Designer Series paper--so much I did just a new tutorial with it--hopefully will be done typing it by Tuesday. But back to this post, here is my sample...

Aren't these colors fun!? I love the hearts too. The arrows on the paper made me think of hearts, lol.

Sue Root
As always the team has assembled a great group of cards sure to inspire you to want to try the sketch out. Can't
wait to see what you can come up with remember to come on back and add
your direct link to the linky tool below. Here are a few rules of
play....

You have a full week to play along!

Create a new card using the sketch as your inspiration.

Use any products you choose.

Add your card to your blog or other on-line spot and link back to this challenge.

Come back here and add a direct link to your sample for the challenge
and NOT you home page of your blog--people will not look for your
challenge card--trust me.

And this one is not really a rule but a request--get rid of that word
verification! It makes it hard for us to comment on your samples. It
is easier for you to delete the spam then for us to jump through tons
of hoops to comment. If your put your comments on moderation you do not
have to worry about spam--you will have the option to delete it
BEFORE it ever goes on your blog so you will ALWAYS be safe!

Bunny Pants tutorial with matching cards

Bunny Pants Tutorial with matching cards

Pilot Bag and Matching Cards Tutorial

Pilot Bag and Matching Cards

Love Notes Tutorial

Love Notes Tutorial

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Quotes

Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.

-Bob Moawad

God whispers in your soul and speaks to your mind. Sometimes when you don't have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at you. It's your choice: Listen to the whisper, or wait for the brick. -unknown

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. -St Francis of Assisi